Should a Christian Attend an LGBTQ Wedding?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Should Christians attend an LGBTQ wedding? Today, hear a discussion that Steven Lawson and Burk Parsons shared with Chris Larson on how Christians are to stand firm in the truth while loving their neighbors in a confused world.
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Meet Today's Teachers:
Steven Lawson is founder and president of OnePassion Ministries in Dallas. He is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, professor of preaching and dean of D.Min. studies at The Master’s Seminary, and teacher for the Institute for Expository Preaching. He is author of many books, including The Passionate Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Knox: Fearless Faith, and The Moment of Truth.
Burk Parsons is senior pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, FL, chief editorial officer for Ligonier Ministries, editor of Tabletalk magazine, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is author of Why Do We Have Creeds?, editor of Assured by God and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology, and cotranslator and coeditor of A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Speaking the truth, whether it's about God's wrath, whether it's the gospel, |
| 0:04.6 | whether it's about eternal damnation, or whether it's about marriage being strictly between one man and one woman, |
| 0:11.0 | we have to speak the truth because we love because we are truly |
| 0:15.0 | compassionate even when it means we are rejected. |
| 0:29.0 | Scripts Scripture calls Christians to speak the truth in love. We're also commanded to love our neighbors. |
| 0:31.8 | What does it look like to obey those commands when your |
| 0:34.8 | neighbor says they're transgender and they invite you to their wedding? What should it |
| 0:39.6 | look like if that neighbor is a family member. |
| 0:43.7 | Thanks for joining us today on renewing your mind |
| 0:46.6 | as we discuss these questions and more. |
| 0:50.3 | One resource that has just been released |
| 0:52.4 | by Ligonier Ministries that answers these questions and many more that we won't have time to address today is our field guide on gender and sexuality. |
| 1:01.0 | And we'll send you two copies when you make a donation of any amount at renewing |
| 1:05.9 | your mind.org. But be quick as this offer ends today. Recently Ligonier's president and CEO Chris Larson moderated a conversation with two of our |
| 1:17.4 | teaching fellows Stephen Lawson and Burke Parsons to address these timely questions. |
| 1:23.9 | Here's that discussion now. |
| 1:27.7 | The culture at large has careened quickly |
| 1:31.5 | away from any semblance of biblical morality. But what has been surprising |
| 1:37.1 | is that there's been confusion even within the church about where we should stand on a host of contemporary issues. |
| 1:46.5 | And I think we've all felt the ground shift beneath our feet over the past several years |
| 1:52.2 | in particular and the pace of change does not seem |
| 1:55.9 | like it is slowing down at all and so Ligonier is seeking to encourage the church around the world to be able to stand firm in convictions on God's word. |
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